1. She sold frozen yogurt.

For her very first job, and then 13-year-old Markle sold frozen yogurt at a California shop called Humphrey Yogart.

"She earned minimum wage and was very popular with customers," her former boss, Paula Sheftel, told the Mirror. "She had to prove she had an outgoing personality and would work well with staff."

In a 2014 Tweet that's no longer available after Markle deleted her social media accounts, she recounted the time she met one of her idols, "Baywatch" actress Yasmine Bleeth, in the parking lot of that very same frozen yogurt shop.

Markle said she burst out with, "Oh my God, I loved you in that Soft & Dri commercial" and Bleeth responded, "OK, thank you!"

Markle told the magazine that she did Dolce & Gabbana's celebrity correspondence during the holidays and even did the wedding invitations for Robin Thicke and Paula Patton, who ended up divorcing in 2014.

"I would sit there with a little white tube sock on my hand so no hand oils got on the card, trying to pay my bills while auditioning," she said.

Markle even disclosed some of her secrets for beautiful handwriting, saying that "you don't have to have a fancy pen by any means" but that the most important thing is to "take your time" and "do fluid strokes," she told Esquire.

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4. She taught classes at a stationary store.

Markle is so good at calligraphy that she taught classes on it.
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"It was her part-time job as she was going through auditions," the CEO of Paper Source, Winnie Park, told PEOPLE. "She taught calligraphy, and hosted a group of customers and instructed them during a two-hour class on how to do calligraphy."

She also led classes on gift-wrapping and book-binding.

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5. She was a briefcase model on a game show.

We'd pick her briefcase.
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Markle once worked on a game show where she modeled briefcases.

In 2006, she joined the game show "Deal or No Deal" and became part of a group of women whose job was to wear matching outfits and hold numbered suitcases. The contestants had to guess which suitcase might contain $1 million.

Although Markle reportedly made decent money — one colleague told MONEY they made $800 an episode— it seems she didn't love that particular job.

"Definitely working on 'Deal or No Deal' was a learning experience, and it helped me to understand what I would rather be doing," she said in her 2013 interview with Esquire.

She added that much of her time on the show was her "standing up there forever in these terribly uncomfortable and inexpensive five-inch heels just waiting for someone to pick my number so I could go and sit down."

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6. She was a restaurant hostess.

One of Markle's many jobs was hostessing at a restaurant.
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Although many of her jobs were on the unconventional side, Markle did have at least one job considered to be "traditional" for an aspiring actor.

10. She designed two clothing lines.

Markle created a collection of dresses in a 2016 collaboration with Reitmans.

"I toiled over design and print, I shared my thoughts on everything (come on guys, you know I'm opinionated), and I ended up with a limited collection of pieces that reflect facets of my personal style that I think (hope, pray, hold-my-breath-and-wait-for-the-comments-on-Insta), that you'll love," Markle wrote on her blog at the time.

The four spring dresses each cost less than $100, according to the book.